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VOLUME XXXVIII
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Woman's Association To Give
First Dance of Year To
morrow Night.
TO BE IN SPENCEH HALL
A feature of the social activi
ties of the week-end will be a
dance to be given tomorrow
night by the feminine members
of the University v in Spencer
hall. This dance will be in
charge of the student council of
the Woman's Association , which
is composed. of the following:
Kitty Wells,- chairman : Helen
McKay, Suzanne Dent, Phoebe
Harding, Ludie Lee, and Olivia
McKinnie. -
Formal invitations have been
sent out for this affair, which
will begin at nine and last until
one o'clock. Several attractive
features are being planned
among which will be a set of np
break dances for the benefit of
the junior, senior, and graduate
classes. Music will be rendered
by the Carolina Buccaneers.
Plans are to have the hall artis
tically decorated with evergreen.
This will be the first of the
dances given by the Woman's
Association during this sohool
year. Quite a few of these were
given last year .and proved to
be very popular affairs.
This dance will be under the
regulations of the German Club,
and representatives of the exe
cutive committee of that or
ganization will be present.
EXTENSION. N E W S
ANNOUNCES DATES
SCHOOL CONTESTS
Regulations C Governing Annual
Contests Released By Univer
sity Extension Division.
The current issue of the Uni
versity Extension News carries
an announcement of the regula
tions and dates for the f high
school academic contests spon
sored by the University Depart
ment of School Relations in an
effort to increase the interest of
North Carolina high school stu
dents in the field of scholarship.
Examinations are prepared and
graded by the University in
struction departments in
French, Latin,
Spanish and-
mathematics, with which sub
jects the contests are concerned.
Quoting from the Extension
News: "Since these contests
were inaugurated, with' the first
annual high school Latin contest
held on February 18, 1925, they
have met with a very cordial re
ception on the part of the high
schools of the state. The central
committee at the University
hopes that the contests will be
found helpful by the high schools
and that they will prove gener
ally successful this year.
The dates for the holding of
these different contests are as
follows : Latin contest, February
28; French contest, March 14;
Spanish contest, March 28;
Mathematics contest, April 25.
"All accredited North Caro
lina public high schools are in
vited to enter the contests,
which are being given for the
fifth time, with the exception of
the sixth annual Latin contest.
The school officials whose high
Bchools plan to enter the contests
should notify E. R. Rankin,
Secretary, at Chapel Hill, at
their earliest convenience, re
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A T TNIT
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Mi
hiudent Naturalist
Live A lligator For Collection
-o-
(By Joe Jones)-
Rooming down in Graham
dormitory is a boy who is plan
ning to become a great natural
ist like William Beebe; He is
majoring in botany, and zoology,
and is also continually delving
into the secrets of-ornithology,
ichthology, entomology, morph
ology, and herpetology. At pres
ent his passion is tramping the
woods and swamps in search Of
liverworts, which he carefully
brings home in a little paste
board box.
But liverworts aren't the only
things he. brings in. His room
is at times, a miniature museum
of natural history, and now and
then it takes on the appearance
of a zool Just now it shelters a
bunch of stuff its occupant col
lected in the Dutch West Indies
last summer, which includes
several varieties of coral, some
palm nuts, specimens of marine
life preserved in jars, and a pol
ished slab of lignum vitae, which
is one of the heaviest woods in
the world.
Of local flora he has growing
in his room at this time ferns,
wisteria slips, and mushrooms. ham apartment. Here the two
One big window box is bare now, 'are at this moment living hap
but its owner says, "It's going i pily together,
to give me some big surprises Their, first night together,
when spring comes because I've
planted so many kinds of seeds
in it that I've forgotten what
they all are."
He has on his shelves rows of
bottled ; chemicals, boxes ; of
chemical apparatus, and a small
library of books dealing- with
the natural sciences. One of
the most recent additions to the
collection is a rare volume on
reptiles procured after a long
search from aNew York dealer
for twenty-five dollars.
WILLIAM BEEBE
LECTURES HERE
Noted Deep Sea Explorer Will
Appear on Entertainment
Program Tonight.
(By E. C. Daniel)
William Beebe, director of
tropical research of the New
York Zoological Society, will
give his lecture, "Beneath Trop
ic Seas," as the first number on
the student entertainment pro
gram of the winter quarter.
Mr; Beebe appears in Swain hall
tomgnt.
Illustrated with underwater
motion pictures in color, the
talk will describe the fairyland
under the sea, of which Mr.
Beebe wrote thus in the New
York Times:
"The general impression of
hours and days spent at the
bottom of the sea is its fairy
like unreality. It is, in truth,
an Alice's Wonderland where
our terrestial experiences and
terms are set at naught. The
flowers are worms, and the boul
ders living creatures; here we
weigh but a fraction of what we
do on land; here distance is
sheer color and tne sky a glory
of roppling light.
"Here we can support our
selves with the crook of our lit
tle finger, and when we let go
fall too slowly for injury. Un
like the mountains of our upper
air, to climb is to reach safety;
to descend - is' certain death.
Until we have found our way
to the surface of some friendly
planet other than the earth, the
bottom of. the sea will remain
the loveliest and strangest place
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CHAPEL HILL, N. G, THURSDAY, JANUARY SO, 1930
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In one corner of the room sits
a sixty-pound rock, which is
used as'-a weight in the press
ing of plants. - - ; ;
.The young naturalist has been
in school here for almost three
years, and during that time his
roommates have been snakes, a
chipmunk, ; a pigeon, , turtles,
frogs, Brodie Arnold, and a kit
ten. The snakes either died in
captivity or were let go. The
pigeon had a broken wing, but it
was kept until completely cured.
The chipmunk escaped,- the frogs
croaked, Brodie Arnold and the
kitten went away of their own
accord, and the turtles were
turned loose because they would
not lay. So for a long time the
snake doctor, as he is called by
his dormitory neighbors, has
lived alone.
But day before yesterday a
colored boy appeared in town
with a 44-inch live alligator,
which the lonely S. Dr. prompt
ly purchased for a dollar and
seventy-five cents. He imme
diately christened it Randolph,
which- is his favorite snake
name, and bore it off to his Gra-
however, was a hectic one. Ran -
dolph was given the freedom of
the room, and behaved himself
not unseemly until about four
a. m. Then he started a series
of wall-climbing attempts whicn
always ended in a noisy back
war d fall to the floor. He
crawled back and forth over the
typewriter and the waste can,
and at last tried to get up in the
bed. : The biped jswore, the saur
ian hissed back; and neither of
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Duke-Carolina
In the Readers' Opinion col
umn of this issue appears a
reply by Dean of Students F.
F. Bradshaw to an editorial
which appeared in yesterday's
Tar Heel entitled "Dean Brad
shaw and the Duke-Carolina
Question." . Dean ; Bradshaw
states in his reply that an in
correct interpretation was
placed by the editor upon a
series of chapel talks which he
made recently concerning
Duke-Carolina relationships.
The editor comments on Dean
Bradshaw's reply in the edi
torial columns of this issue.
NEW FELLOWSHIPS "Inefficiencies and Dangers of
POSTED BY SOCIAL a Federal Reserve System A
RESEARCH COUNCIL Jj Opportumsm," by Dr.
C. T. Murchison, director of re-
A new series of fellowships, ' search in the school of com-
available to Southern graduate
students who are interested in
problems of special significance
to the South in the general field
of social sciences, has been an
nounced by the Social Science
Research Council.
Tne fellowships are of two
types: junior fellowships for
first-year graduate students,
the stipend to range from
SH00: and senior fellowships
i ' v
for more advanced; graduate
students, the stipend -to range,
from $750. They are open to
men or 'women who are grad-
Uit lea vjx avViuiicu v,uiicgti
universities. Awards are made ,
for one year. j
Applicants from the Universi-
ty should talk with Dr. T. J.!
Wnnftpr Jr.; at. 914 Alumni
building. The closing date for
applications for 1930-31 is Feb-
applications
ruary 15, 1930.
RENOVATION OF -EDUCATION
HALL
;N0WERm
Interior Peabody Building Will
Undergo Complete Recon
struction; Classes Meeting in
Old Library. ; 1
Peabody hall, at which the
school of education has its quar
ters, is to undergo a complete
renovation during the spring
and winter terms, in preparation
for which the school of educa
tion is being transferred to the
old library; building. The work
of moving the school of educa
tion out of Peabody has been in
progress for several days and is
now practically finished. Mean
while, the classes in :-- education
have been meeting in the school's
temporary quarters since Tues
day of this week.
Peabody building is now being
dismantled, and materials for
its reconstruction ,are being
placed on the grounds. Work on
the reconstruction project will
begin at once and will be finished
by June, in time for the school
of education , to move in before
the opening of the summer ses
sion. Plans and specifications have
been made -by the Atwood Nash
organization, and the reconstruc-
tion work will be done by T. C.
Thompson and Brothers who
have built the University's new
er buildings. The money for
this project," $50,000, was ap
propriated by the legislature of
1927.
Peabody building was erected
in 1912-1913 with, funds appro
priated by the trustees of the
PeabodyFund. v
Under the south side of the
building a basement is to be ex
cavated and f ullsize windows put
in. Here are to be a stock room,'
filing room, instrument room and
i laboratory for the bureau of ed
ucational records, a room for the
High School Journal, a shipping
room, a. ladies rest room and
toliets: On the first floor are
to be the administration and
clerical offices for the school of
education and the summer
school, the office of the bureau
(Continued on, page three)
Murchison Criticizes Federal
Reserve For Speculation .W ave
- In the annual Review
and
Forecast number of "The An
nalist," one of the leading finan
cial publications in the country,
there appeared an article
on
merce. ,.
Dr. Murchison directs His ar
ticle against the Federal Re
serve Board as a criticism for
the part it played in the recent
waves of speculation that have
swept the country, and denounc
ing it as one of the underlying
causes for this excessive gamb
ling on the market which nar-
' rowly averted panic and disas-
j ter.
"The autumn of 1929 not only
unlolded the sequel to a aecaae
! of financial experimentation and
adventure," says Prof essor
the beerinninff of
"
his article, "but it also marked
the fifteenth anniversary of the
operation of the federal reserve
system. For many, years there
was irony in the coincidence, be-
cause it marked the passing of
misplaced confidence in the fed-
eral reserve system as
ggTiie
resented
Freshman Election
The results of the run-off
elections jof the freshman
class, held yesterday are offi
cially announced as follows:
Secretary: Clarence Jensen
142; Henry Connor 126; Jen
sen declared elected. ;
Treasurer John Peacock
154; Milton Barber 113 ; Pea
cock declared elected, i
BERNARD CONE TO
SPEAK MONDAY
President of World's Largest
Denim Mills Will Talk on
Present Condition of Textile
Industry. .
Bernard M. Cone, president of
the Proximity Cotton -Mills at
Greensboro, will speak upon the
present conditions in the textile
industry next Monday evening,
February 3, at 8 o'clock.
This lecture will be the third
of a series of talks sponsored
this year by the school of com
merce. It is the aim of these
lectures to be able to present
various viewpoints upon many
pertinent subjects of interest.
The recent interest in indus
trial affairs of this state aroused
by the editorial battle waged be
tween David Clark, editor of the
Textile Bulletin and -Glenn
Holder, of the Daily Tar Heel
promises to assure a large audi
ence next Monday evening. Mr,
Cone, as president of the largest
denim "manufacturing plant in
the world, whose mills and
mill villages housing thousands
of employees and their families
have been termed "model," will
probably give a very illuminat
ing lecture upon the conditions
nowexistant in the cotton and
allied industries. '
The large lecture room in
Bingham-hall has been tentative
ly selected as the' place for. Mr.
Cone's talk. Although pri
marily for students in the school
of commerce, any interested per
sons will be admitte.
agency of stabilization.
"But," the article continues,
"for those who had wisely re
frained from attributing to it
; powers of such sweeping poten
cy, the accastion held an even
greater disappointment. To
them the poignancy lay in the
final evidence that the 'federal
reserve system had taken but
little rootage in the principles
and ideals which gave it birth."
"Admitting that the war
caused a reversal of conserva
tive banking methods to " ac
commodate emergency expedi
ents, the article goes on to say
"it was supposed that after the
war would come readjustments
to peace-time standards and re
quirements." However, the writer charges
hat "such expectations were
never realized, and the end of a
i full decade of peaces finds the
I system heavily loaded with the
I materials and the methods of
war financing." As a result the
commercial paper basis has be
come" practically abandoned, and
the member banks have come to
lean heavily on the practice of
using collateral notes secured,
by government bonds in order
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NUMBER C3
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Mere -TdnigM
George Kelly's Comedy Opens
Three-Day Run in Play
maker Theatre.
F. H. KOCH .IS DIRECTOR
Called Finest Comedy Ever
Written By An American; la
Third Production of Year by
Local Players.
The Carolina Playmakers pre
sent their third production of
the season, George Kelly's "The
Show-Off ," at the Playmaker '
theatre tonight at 8:30. The
play will be repeated Friday
and Saturday nights.
"The Show-Off" is a three-act '
comedy- of -American life. It
was first produced at the Play
house in New York in 1924.""
Alexander Woollcott of the Sun
called it "one of the finest com
edies ever written by an Ameri
can
Professor Frederick Koch, in
writing for the program for
tonight's performance said, "It
is a better play than Mr. Kelly's
earlier success, 'The Torch
bearers,' an hilarious satire on
the little theatre movement, pro
duced by the Playmakers in
1925." -
"The Show-Off" was first
written as a. vaudeville skit, and
was elaborated from that into
its present form. It is a trans
cript of middle class llfg, of a
typical main street family. The
scene is laid in the home of a
suburban family in West Phila
delphia. The play in three acts is an
indigenous domestic comedy of
true characterization, good hu
mor and homely good sense." All
characters are representative of
the American scene; they are
readily recognizable anywhere
on main street. Aubrey Piper,
the show-off , a thirty-two-dollar-a-week
clerk with a - 'million
dollar imagination,' is a. univer
sal figure to be found in every
city and every town. For all his
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FERGER DECLARES
NEW .CALENDAR IS
BIG KIPROVEMENT
University Professor Speaks to
Taylor Society on Advantages
Of 13-Month Calendar.
Professor W. F. Ferger spoke
on "The 13-Month Calendar" be
fore the University of North
Carolina student branch of the
Taylor Society Tuesday evening;.
In his talk Mr. Ferger did not
limit himself to the 13-month
calendar, but discussed the topic
of calendar reform in general.
He told of the several previous
reforms in the calendar and dis
cussed the two new forms of the
calendar which have been pro
posed for adaption.
After enumerating the disad
vantages of the present calen
dar, - Mr. Ferger showed how
either of the two proposed sys
tems would overcome these
faults and now the new calen
dars would be an aid to man
agement. '
. The next meeting, to-be held
next Tuesday at 7:00 o'clock in
Bingham hall, will be addressed
by Dr. H. D. Wolf, who will
speak on "Management and
Technological Unemployment."
Programs for the remainder
of the quarter include talks by
members of the faculty who will
speak on subjects related to
scientific management.